Just in case anyone is holding out hope that people in the University of California system will hold up the UCLA portion of the UCLA-USC move to the Big Ten, thereby scuttling Fox Sports’ plans for this huge rearrangement of the college sports landscape, there’s a simple piece of insight for you:
No. It’s going to happen. This is a done deal.
So says John Canzano at his Substack:
Would the presidents at USC and UCLA veto the move?
A: The Pac-12 CEO Group fashions itself as a cohesive entity. They move like bison on the prairie. This kind of defection is unusual and will be met with a definite reaction from the other university presidents and chancellors. I’m sure George Kliavkoff has already been on the phone with Oregon president Michael Schill and WSU president Kirk Schultz, who are persuasive allies on this front. Bohn and Jarmond didn’t act alone here, though. They had the blessing of campus leadership at USC and UCLA. This is done.
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